No Jihad during Ramadan?
Via Leadership
In this holy month of Ramadan, when the Muslims worldwide are observing a season of peace, love, forgiveness and sharing, many people expected Boko Haram to sheathe its swords, but the group has continued to unleash mayhem on innocent Nigerians. Kareem Haruna, Maiduguri, writes
Though it can be quite unpredictable when and where Boko Haram’s next attack could be, the terrorists group however last week staged several attacks in Borno State that really broke the hearts of many people who anticipated an halt in the ongoing attacks as the Islamic holy month of lent started
Ramadan, the Muslims’ 30 days of annual fasting, is widely recognised as a period when Muslims worldwide engage in all forms of rewarding activities, including the sharing of love and kindness.
But to the chagrin of many in Borno State, the Boko Haram sect, which prides itself as a body that is bent on enshrining Sharia rule as a system of government in Nigeria, has continued to mete out terror on both Muslims and Christians, even in this month of Ramadan.
Against the general public’s prolepsis that the Boko Haram sect would at least take a break during the ongoing month of Ramadan, more bestial attacks have been carried out during the dawning days of the holy month.
LEADERSHIP Sunday can authoritatively report that over 200 persons have so far been killed, while hundreds of others were badly injured in attacks credited to the sect in the first week of the month of Ramadan.
Apart from pockets of isolated killings that the terrorists’ organisation had carried out on the eve and even the first day of Ramadan, where hapless villagers were attacked and killed, Boko Haram gunmen had staged terrible attacks on churches in two communities of Chibok local government area where over a hundred persons were killed.
On June 29, 2014, in Chibok local government area, where over 200 schoolgirls that are currently in captivity of the Boko Haram sect were abducted, the area witnessed yet another dark day in their beleaguered experience in the last three months as gunmen moved a battalion size armed terrorists to overrun communities in the area.
The gunmen took their time, allowing the villagers of Kwada and Kautikari communities, 10 kilometres from Chibok town, to commence their church services before storming the neighbourhood and turned their rifles against them, while detonating their explosives in the churches.
Eyewitnesses quoted in several news media testified that the gunmen who first attacked Kwada village at about 8:00am surrounded the three churches and ordered every child and female worshiper out before opening fire on the elderly and young men inside.